Stephen Curry’s ankle is fine, and Andrew Bogut’s is not. The Warriors wouldn’t comment on the firing of Lakers coach Mike Brown until the team announced the move as official.

With few other talking points, we had no other choice after Friday’s shootaround but to talk about basketball.

“The Lakers are a very talented basketball team,” coach Mark Jackson said. “They’ve got four guys who will be in the Hall of Fame. It’s a new system, but they’ll figure it out. Our job is to make sure they don’t figure it out while we’re here.”

Jackson said it was important for the Warriors to focus on their own strengths, instead of getting caught up in the Lakers’ drama. The coach has been stressing the importance of forcing the tempo and getting transition baskets for weeks.

When the Warriors were running at their best Wednesday against Cleveland, Richard Jefferson was often right in the middle of the action. He seems to have a found a little bit of a time machine, attempting to seize the minutes left open by the season-ending knee injury to Brandon Rush.

“I see him coming alive,” Jackson said of Jefferson. “He’s a guy who worked his tail off this summer. He has been ready from Day 1. It was unfortunate to lose B-Rush, but RJ is a guy who can play three positions for us and has. I think he has something left in his tank. … He’s exceptional at (transition basketball). Obviously, he has slowed down some as he has picked up more miles, but those are things he can do. It opens up shots and puts pressure on the defense when he does that.”

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With Bogut being held out of games for seven to 10 days, the Warriors will start rookie center Festus Ezeli. Jackson will also use the David Lee-Carl Landry front line quite a bit.

It will be interesting to see how much he can get away with using the power forward duo against the Lakers, who essentially start two centers in Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol. Jackson said Landry is usually the better of his power forwards at defending centers.

“Carl has the strength, but it depends on who the center is,” Jackson said. “Against DeMarcus Cousins, I was fine with David guarding him. With both of those guys, you understand that you’re eventually going to be overmatched. The important thing is to compete and make life tough. What we want to do is take advantage of what we have on the other end.”

Jackson commended Lee’s effort on defense, but he didn’t go as far as he did with his recent defensive praise for Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry. In the preseason, Jackson said Thompson had been the team’s best perimeter defender. After Wednesday’s game, Jackson called Curry “an elite defender.”

Lee “is one of our leaders, and he understands that he can’t preach it if he’s not doing it,” Jackson said. “He’s competing on the defensive end, he’s paying attention to details and he’s not free-styling away from our principles. Now, he can hold guys accountable.”

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We’ll get Jackson’s reaction to the Brown firing before the opening tip. Jackson’s assistant coaches aren’t usually allowed to talk to the media, but it would be interesting to hear from Michael Malone, who turned down the lead assistant job under Brown to take the same gig under Jackson.

By the way, after interviewing for nearly every opening this summer, I haven’t heard Malone’s name in connection with the Lakers’ job. At his news conference, Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said he will consider assistant coaches, but it’s more likely that he’ll hire someone who isn’t currently employed.